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Joshua 4:20

Verse 20 of 24. The 4th of 24 chapters in Joshua, in History.

16“Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”

17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”

18When the priests who bore the ark of the LORD’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

20Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

22Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over,

24that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear the LORD your God forever.’”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.